Love is giving something you don't have to someone who doesn't want it
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“Love is giving something you don't have to someone who doesn't want it” is a dictum by Jacques Lacan first uttered in Seminar XII (March 1965).
In original French: "L'amour, c'est donner ce qu'on n'a pas à quelqu'un qui n'en veut pas."
It is misquoted by Adam Phillips in On Flirtation as "love is giving something you haven't got to someone who doesn't exist."
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Dutch
"Liefde is iets willen geven dat je niet hebt, aan iemand die het niet wil."
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